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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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It will now be illegal to to make fun of me. If you make me cry you will go to prison. I’m strong.

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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

submitted 2 days ago • 620 comments

I love how Monk sometimes breaks with the conventions of the impossible crime genre by just not explaining how the impossible part was done. Who cares about that nerd stuff? Here's twenty minutes of Tony Shalhoub straightening things.

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

When is International MEN'S Day? Where are the left-handed scissors for RIGHT-handers? Why isn't there a cemetery for ALIVE people?

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks

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does anyone else think of wayne’s world when they do this?

submitted 5 days ago • 191 comments

Rewatching CRIMSON TIDE and UNFORGIVEN really makes me miss the days when a movie could make money just on "see this actor go up against this actor!" and movie stars had screen personas and iconicography they could take apart and twist and weaponize. Don't see The Rock or Ryan Renyolds doin' that.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.

submitted 6 days ago • 938 comments

LIFE. SENTENCE.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

"There isn’t some 22-year-old putting together a 'Most Defiant Moments At The State Of The Union' listicle this morning. Twenty-two-year-olds don’t have jobs anymore."

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Trump's victory, I've read, has ushered in a new era where people don't have to be so careful about saying the right words or saying what's on their mind. And yet you wouldn't know it listening to CEOs being asked about the tariffs.

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

The Substance was good & one can be disappointed Demi didn’t win & it’s always important to unpack ageism/sexism in film, but I’m not convinced that demeaning Mikey’s talent by claiming she only won because male voters decided with their dicks is the bold feminist stance some posters think it is.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

Films are so needlessly woke and complicated now. Whatever happened to simple, relatable plotlines? Like a normal white guy who turns his cornfield into a pitch for a bunch of baseball ghosts so he can meet his dead dad?

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Yes, millions of people will suffer but at least it's for a good cause: because one old asshole wanted to avoid going to jail for crimes he committed

submitted 9 days ago • 98 comments

I always thought complaining about long Oscar speeches was kind of a weiner complaint, you’re already watching the Oscars man, what the hell else could you have going on

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

inaccurate headline. absolutely no proof he welcomed this baby. chances that he's seen this baby longer than how many seconds i looked at the last eclipse are ~4%.

submitted 9 days ago • 1031 comments

feels weird to be watching an Oscars where the host, the writers, maybe even everyone involved actually seem to love movies. and it's funny, they're not just taking tedious, mean-spirited potshots at movies for the entire runtime. pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying this

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Waitress: What can I get you? Me: I’ll have a three-egg omelet. Waitress: We’ll need to run a credit check.

submitted 10 days ago • 101 comments

It's so funny watching people complain about a single use of the word 'fuck' on WWE "because there are kids watching" when an hour earlier they watched a man get beaten with a chair wrapped in barbed wire without batting an eye.

submitted 10 days ago • 149 comments

What's not mentioned in this excerpt is that this was sponsored by Third Way, a think tank that is singlemindedly devoted to convincing Democrats to cut the left out of the party. God knows the DNC has its problems, but it's misleading to frame this as a mainstream Democratic conference.

submitted 10 days ago • 122 comments

PREDICTION: At the Oscars Conan will do a skit where someone comes up from the crowd and slaps him. Either the slapper will be Chris Rock (to demonstrate he's fine making fun of it), or they'll do a running bit where it happens repeatedly, with increasingly unlikely slappers.

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

I'm sick of the misogyny, Linda McMahon is not just Vince McMahon's wife, she is a lying sack of shit in her own right! Give women credit 💅🏻

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

There’s a real level of genius the greatest filmmakers have where people can write essays and produce documentaries about the symbolism in The Shining and then you see a clip of Stanley Kubrick talking about it and he’s like “yeah I thought it’d look creepy idk”

submitted 12 days ago • 38 comments

You don't want the Chinese government to have your data. They could do something bad with it. You want your data to go to a twitching on ketamine 48 year old techbro who will decide if your inferior Hibernian genetic stock is more useful being composted down into coolant fluid for his server farm.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Haven't seen Breaking Bad in ages but every time I hear about more FAA chaos & "I want federal workers in a constant state of trauma" I think of Jane's bereaved ATC dad who, due to his profound trauma & grief, makes an error that causes a massive fatal mid-air plane collision over Albuquerque.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks. Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

submitted 13 days ago • 302 comments

Speaking of Wonder Woman, someone was saying that fans are foolish for being angry when folks associate Wonder Woman with the American flag because she wears those colors. So many problems. 1. No, she doesn’t. 2. Countless national flags are red, white and blue. 3. She doesn’t wear the colors.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 353 days ago • 82 comments

i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

Social media has really killed the mystique of evil, there are so many books about the psychology of Nixon or Stalin but we all know for a fact that Elon hates his father and his dick doesn’t work

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Just saw the He-Man movie cast list and Leto being ten names down has real 'These chocolates are delicio-WHY IS THIS PAIR OF SCISSORS IN HERE?!' energy

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I love Harrison Ford but if having to answer nerd questions pissed me off that bad I would probably just make fewer nerd movies

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

if you're reading this 50 years from now I need you to know that this series of world events isn't as dumb as it probably seems, it's actually much, much dumber than you can possibly imagine

submitted 17 days ago • 154 comments

Put on the SAG Awards because why not and Kieran Caulken was getting interviewed and what a beautiful train wreck that was. “Do you remember shooting Home Alone?” “Well I was 7 so of course I remember. Don’t you remember when you were 7?” It went downhill from there. #SAGAwards

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We got the actress back from a movie that under-performed 17 years ago, to share a scene with her father, now played by a different actor as the original actor died, we are baffled as to why this did not secure a 250 million dollar opening weekend.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Really enjoy how everytime a seasoned high-profile actor is brought on to do an MCU movie and is interviewed about the experience they just plainly state they stood around in a giant blue room for a few weeks and have no idea what the movie actually was

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Every federal worker should respond to the "what did you accomplish last week?" email by simply quoting the president's agenda from his first term: I worked from early in the morning until late in the evening. I made many calls and had many meetings.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

People really try to reinvent the wheel on movie premises, we got both "My Cousin Vinny" and "Legally Blonde" out of "what if a good lawyer was also kind of silly"

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

#horrorwatch It’s interesting that no matter what era the movie is set in, you can tell almost to the year when it it was filmed by the hair styles.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 18 days ago • 110 comments

two big takeaways rewatching the Final Destination movies: 1. there’s something deeply funny and almost profound about a slasher series where the slasher is literally just the fact that you’re going to die 2. the real villain is Liquids

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